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Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt). An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Benjamin one of the most important twentieth century thinkers about literature and about modern aesthetic experience.

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German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

Born 15 July 1892
Died 27 September 1940

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  • Cover of: Illuminations

    Cover of edition illuminationsess00benj Cover of edition illuminations0000benj First published in 1961 — 29 editions
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  • Cover of: The Origin of German Tragic Drama

    Cover of edition ursprungdesdeuts0000benj Cover of edition originofgermantr0000benj_d5k7 Cover of edition origingermantrag00benj Cover of edition originofgermantr0000benj First published in 1963 — 19 editions
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  • Cover of: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    First published in 1963 — 13 editions
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  • Cover of: Charles Baudelaire: a lyric poet in the era of high capitalism

    First published in 1969 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 4, 1938-1940

    First published in 1999 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: Walter Benjamin and architecture

    First published in 2009 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Gesammelte Schriften

    First published in 1972 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Aesthetics and politics

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  • Cover of: The arcades project

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  • Cover of: Correspondence 1930-1940

    First published in 2014 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Über Literatur.

    First published in 1969 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Strada a senso unico

    First published in 1955 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: L'obra d'art a l'època de la seva reproductibilitat tècnica.: Tres estudis de sociologia de l´art

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  • Cover of: Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert

    First published in 1950 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: The Archive

    First published in 2007 — 4 editions
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    First published in 1996 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings

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    First published in 1965 — 4 editions
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German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

Born 15 July 1892
Died 27 September 1940

Subjects

German Authors, Benjamin, walter, 1892-1940, Correspondence, Philosophy, Translations into English, Biography, Criticism and interpretation, History, Exhibitions, German literature, History and criticism, Aesthetics, Authors, German, Criticism, Architecture, Art criticism, Authors, Civilization, Literature, Social life and customs, Addresses, essays, lectures, Art and society, Authors, correspondence, Books and reading, German Aesthetics

Places

Germany, France, Paris, Paris (France), Europe, Latin America, Moscow, Moscow (Russia), Russia (Federation), Berlin, Deutschland, Europa, Ibiza Island (Spain), Nashville, Nashville (Tenn.), Soviet Union, Switzerland, Tennessee

People

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Gershom Gerhard Scholem (1897-1982), Eduard Fuchs (1870-1940), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867,), Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843), Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), Socrates

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1830-1848, 1848-1870, 1948-, 18th century, 1900, 20e siècle, 21st century, Early modern, 1500-1700, S.XVI-XVII, s. XVI-XVII

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  • WALTER BENJAMIN
  • Walter Benjamín

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February 19, 2024 Edited by kathrinpassig merge authors
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September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import